Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 76 58
Rank change year-on-year -46 -18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,351 1,513 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 3.69% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 3.96% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 907 1,041 2,784
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,747 38,173 78,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.19% 93.03% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 38,762 22,528 58,201
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,290 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,557
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -36 1,230 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +5 671 £87,500 - 226
Work from Home -24 604 £70,000 -2.77% 349
UK excluding London -119 571 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -50 258 £67,500 -6.24% 130
South East -118 120 £75,000 +11.11% 90
North West -45 119 £67,500 -5.26% 76
Yorkshire -46 100 £69,653 -3.25% 31
South West -80 60 £62,500 -8.79% 35
Midlands -69 58 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East -1 39 £65,000 +23.81% 28
East of England -27 39 £65,000 +13.04% 20
West Midlands -27 34 £72,500 +1.75% 21
Scotland -82 30 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -65 23 £67,250 +3.46% 15
Wales -25 10 £54,185 +8.37% 13
Northern Ireland -35 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.41%) Apache
3 18 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.26%) Confluence
5 15 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 15 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.96%) JBoss
7 11 (0.81%) IIS
7 11 (0.81%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.67%) CMS
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.37%) Appian
10 4 (0.30%) Camunda
10 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.30%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.074%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.52%) Maya
4 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.074%) Actimize
7 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.074%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.074%) Quorum
7 1 (0.074%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.074%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.074%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 744 (55.07%) AWS
2 581 (43.01%) Azure
3 309 (22.87%) GCP
4 243 (17.99%) Serverless
5 169 (12.51%) SaaS
6 117 (8.66%) GitHub
7 114 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
8 112 (8.29%) Amazon S3
9 103 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
9 103 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (5.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (5.18%) Amazon SQS
12 69 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
13 57 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 48 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (3.40%) OpenShift
17 42 (3.11%) PaaS
18 39 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
19 36 (2.66%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.77%) Broadband
2 10 (0.74%) HTTP
3 8 (0.59%) AMQP
4 7 (0.52%) Internet
4 7 (0.52%) Network Security
5 6 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.44%) DNS
5 6 (0.44%) Firewall
6 5 (0.37%) DHCP
6 5 (0.37%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) Multicast
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.074%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (13.84%) NoSQL
2 177 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
3 120 (8.88%) MongoDB
4 112 (8.29%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.48%) MySQL
6 70 (5.18%) Relational Database
7 64 (4.74%) DynamoDB
8 49 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.89%) Redis
10 34 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
11 32 (2.37%) BigQuery
12 28 (2.07%) Big Data
13 27 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (1.70%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.04%) DB2
15 14 (1.04%) Power BI
16 13 (0.96%) Pinecone
17 11 (0.81%) Data Lake
18 10 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
19 9 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 187 (13.84%) Git
2 128 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 86 (6.37%) GitLab
4 56 (4.15%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.63%) JIRA
6 43 (3.18%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.59%) JUnit
8 32 (2.37%) Selenium
9 31 (2.29%) Cypress.io
10 30 (2.22%) CircleCI
11 19 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 19 (1.41%) Mockito
12 18 (1.33%) Maven
13 14 (1.04%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.96%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.81%) JMeter
15 11 (0.81%) Vite
16 10 (0.74%) Postman
17 8 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 400 (29.61%) Finance
2 361 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 166 (12.29%) Banking
4 104 (7.70%) Law
5 95 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 86 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (5.70%) Retail
8 70 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (4.15%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.92%) Telecoms
11 45 (3.33%) Back Office
12 20 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.41%) Advertising
13 19 (1.41%) Billing
14 18 (1.33%) Legal
15 17 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.18%) Games
17 13 (0.96%) Marketing
18 11 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 476 (35.23%) Developer
2 354 (26.20%) Senior
3 275 (20.36%) Software Engineer
4 207 (15.32%) Architect
5 171 (12.66%) Lead
6 122 (9.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 120 (8.88%) Senior Developer
8 112 (8.29%) Java Developer
9 96 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 95 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
11 85 (6.29%) Java Engineer
12 76 (5.63%) .NET Developer
13 64 (4.74%) Software Developer
14 52 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
16 46 (3.40%) Lead Developer
17 42 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (2.96%) C# Developer
19 37 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
19 37 (2.74%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (22.80%) React
2 303 (22.43%) .NET
3 281 (20.80%) RESTful
4 222 (16.43%) Spring
5 219 (16.21%) REST
6 203 (15.03%) Node.js
7 194 (14.36%) Spring Boot
8 172 (12.73%) Kafka
9 118 (8.73%) AngularJS
10 94 (6.96%) .NET Core
11 92 (6.81%) gRPC
12 82 (6.07%) HTML
13 71 (5.26%) .NET Framework
14 70 (5.18%) CSS
15 66 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
16 62 (4.59%) ASP.NET
17 57 (4.22%) Vue
18 56 (4.15%) Django
19 54 (4.00%) Middleware
20 51 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 389 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 239 (17.69%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (7.85%) Product Ownership
4 93 (6.88%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
6 51 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
8 40 (2.96%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 30 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 25 (1.85%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.78%) Virtual Team
14 23 (1.70%) Blockchain
15 20 (1.48%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.26%) IoT
17 16 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
17 16 (1.18%) Management Information System
18 15 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.44%) Linux
2 23 (1.70%) Windows
3 16 (1.18%) Android
4 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.44%) Unix
6 5 (0.37%) CentOS
6 5 (0.37%) Debian
6 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (48.78%) CI/CD
2 548 (40.56%) Agile
3 532 (39.38%) DevOps
4 517 (38.27%) Software Engineering
5 379 (28.05%) Containerisation
6 326 (24.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (20.36%) Mentoring
9 267 (19.76%) Event-Driven
10 260 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 258 (19.10%) Test Automation
12 236 (17.47%) AI
13 200 (14.80%) Computer Science
14 197 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
15 166 (12.29%) Scrum
16 161 (11.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 160 (11.84%) Clean Code
18 157 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
19 153 (11.32%) TDD
20 150 (11.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 437 (32.35%) Java
2 372 (27.54%) Python
3 289 (21.39%) SQL
4 267 (19.76%) JavaScript
5 251 (18.58%) C#
6 215 (15.91%) TypeScript
7 124 (9.18%) Go
8 51 (3.77%) Scala
9 42 (3.11%) PHP
10 39 (2.89%) C++
11 34 (2.52%) Bash
11 34 (2.52%) C
12 28 (2.07%) Ruby
13 23 (1.70%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 17 (1.26%) Shell Script
16 16 (1.18%) PowerShell
17 12 (0.89%) Rust
18 10 (0.74%) Groovy
19 8 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 198 (14.66%) Degree
2 122 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 116 (8.59%) Security Cleared
4 82 (6.07%) SC Cleared
5 58 (4.29%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 38 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.04%) CISSP
13 9 (0.67%) CISM
14 8 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.59%) PhD
15 7 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.44%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.07%) QA
2 33 (2.44%) GDPR
3 28 (2.07%) PCI DSS
4 27 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.89%) NIST
8 10 (0.74%) NCSC
9 7 (0.52%) GRC
10 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.44%) IFRS
11 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.30%) SLA
12 4 (0.30%) WCAG
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 2 (0.15%) EMIR
14 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 419 (31.01%) Docker
2 13 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 420 (31.09%) Kubernetes
2 241 (17.84%) Terraform
3 87 (6.44%) Grafana
4 77 (5.70%) Ansible
5 37 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.78%) Kibana
7 13 (0.96%) Argo
8 9 (0.67%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.44%) Puppet
10 5 (0.37%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Packer
12 3 (0.22%) Nagios
12 3 (0.22%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 126 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.29%) Google
3 49 (3.63%) Oracle
4 45 (3.33%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.41%) IBM
6 16 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.11%) SAP
8 14 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 12 (0.89%) AppDynamics
10 10 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.74%) Cisco
10 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 10 (0.74%) Software AG
10 10 (0.74%) Splunk
11 9 (0.67%) Databricks
11 9 (0.67%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.59%) BiZZdesign